if you want to spend a little money, you can buy a real sidereal clock from this fella in the UK http://www.awrtech.co.uk/sc110mk3.htm he will ship to the US....
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melmseattle
Jan 31, 2013 7:23 pm
Just wanting to back up what Olivier has said. The Hyperion scope has been terrific. Major plusses are the integrated rotator and focuser, which have meshed...
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ramastronomy
Jan 31, 2013 7:23 pm
Cool clock. Thanks Lee!...
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Bernard Miller
bgmiller_01
Feb 1, 2013 1:40 am
Hi, Below is a link to NGC2903. This is a barred spiral galaxy about 30 million light years away in the constellation Leo. This is a redo of this object. I did...
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tpiccian
Feb 1, 2013 4:28 pm
I finally got a chance to give a thorough test of my lightbox. I put the info on a separate facebook page. I tested the unit out and the illumination appears...
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barry.schellenberg
barry.schell...
Feb 1, 2013 10:49 pm
Here is my image of the PacMan nebula taken during my recent trip to New Mexico. I have revised my HaRGB combine technique in order to maintain more accurate...
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Bernard Miller
bgmiller_01
Feb 1, 2013 11:49 pm
Very nicely done Barry. Bernard From: ccd-newastro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ccd-newastro@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of barry.schellenberg Sent: Friday, February...
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Stan
stan_ccd
Feb 2, 2013 4:40 pm
Hi Barry, NM is a great place! My only complaint is that the "high res" display images are too small and undersampled. Stan...
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Randy
rzugnoni
Feb 2, 2013 4:56 pm
Hi Tom, I have been wanting to make my own lightbox. Would you be willing to share some of the details of yours. Thanks, Randy...
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barry.schellenberg
barry.schell...
Feb 2, 2013 11:59 pm
Thank you to both Stan and Bernard for your feedback. Stan - could you explain your comment a little more to me? Are you speaking to the image scale or just...
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tpiccian
Feb 3, 2013 6:17 am
Sure. Here are teh components. 1 - Sheet of Parallel format luminous film from www.luminousfilm.com. Sizes vary from simple 3x4 card size to 15 x 23. the film...
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Randy
rzugnoni
Feb 3, 2013 4:22 pm
Thanks Tom. I very much appreciate the information. RIght now I'm busy making an off axis guider. I will start the light box immediately after that. Thanks...
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Stan
stan_ccd
Feb 3, 2013 5:01 pm
... Right. The display image was too small. The new one is well sampled ... I am not fond of "black" backgrounds, mostly because they hide the faint fuzzies...
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David Gimenez
ea3fyz07
Feb 3, 2013 8:37 pm
Very nice composition, details and colors Bernard! I was looking at the full rez image and wonder where these black pixels under some bright stars are coming...
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epulinx
Feb 4, 2013 3:13 pm
Hi group! Did my best to process this galaxy in Camelopardalis.. However,I couldn't obtain in the core of the galaxy the same definition as the picture made by...
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Mark Striebeck
mstriebeck1967
Feb 5, 2013 5:10 am
Hi, Last night, I observed something really strange: when I use binning with my lodestar guider, the stars will elongated. You can see this here: 1x1 (no)...
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Ken Harrison
ken4optics
Feb 5, 2013 6:32 am
Mark, Haven't tried it myself, but it could be due to the rectangular pixel size (8.2 x 8.4micron) in the lodestar? ... -- "Astronomical Spectroscopy - The...
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Stan
stan_ccd
Feb 5, 2013 4:29 pm
... CCDs can be binned asymmetrically; e.g. 1x4 (asymmetric binning is used for spectroscopy). It looks like that's happening here. Check the camera control...
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Stan
stan_ccd
Feb 5, 2013 5:08 pm
... P.S. Asymmetric binning results in a different image aspect ratio. If your image has been compressed in length but not height then it is asymmetric...
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Stan
stan_ccd
Feb 6, 2013 4:28 pm
P.P.S. the 2x2 example looks OK but the 3x and 4x are elongated in Y. CCDs typically can only bin so far and may have different X/Y limits. It may be that CCD...
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Bernard Miller
bgmiller_01
Feb 7, 2013 12:23 am
Hi, The link below is to NGC1977, also known as the Running Man Nebula. I have been gathering this data since last November and finally got around to ...
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focusknobs
Feb 7, 2013 12:35 am
To be honest, I like the complex below the Running Man better. <g> You've brought out a lot of very nice, sharp detail down there. There is one curiosity: did...
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Tom O'Donoghue
tomodonoghue
Feb 7, 2013 1:04 am
Its beautiful, lovely chocolate whips of cloud. Lots of detail. Tight stars, but some ringing on the Orange Red ones. Tom ________________________________ ...
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Bernard Miller
bgmiller_01
Feb 7, 2013 4:02 am
Lou and Tom, Thanks for the feedback on the stars. I cleaned them up and think they are better now. Let me know what you think. Thanks, Bernard From:...
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De Lorme Broussard
delorme_brou...
Feb 7, 2013 4:36 am
Bernard that's a GREAT picture! De Lorme From: Bernard Miller <bgmiller011@...> ... [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Mark Striebeck
mstriebeck1967
Feb 7, 2013 5:20 am
Thanks for all the replies. I checked the lodestar manual. It doesn't mention what the max. binning is. But it only talks about 2x2 binning. I guess I can...
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focusknobs
Feb 7, 2013 6:36 am
Oh, yeah - MUCH better. That's a keeper. Lou ... From: ccd-newastro@yahoogroups.com [mailto:ccd-newastro@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Bernard Miller Sent:...
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Terry Platt
tcplatt
Feb 7, 2013 7:56 am
Hi Mark, The hardware can do up to 8x8, but it’s the software that sets the limit. Regards, Terry From: Mark Striebeck Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 5:05...
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Stan
stan_ccd
Feb 7, 2013 4:12 pm
... I agree! A new benchmark for that object. Stan...
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Tom O'Donoghue
tomodonoghue
Feb 7, 2013 4:24 pm
I clicked back on the original link, and I think it looks better. Did you have the layers saved in PS or some other Astro program? T. ...
